timed accounts

[lionslair]

I am looking for a plugin that will expire a users account after 6 months.

We run a members forum that allows people to sign up. How ever paid members have more forums to post and do things in.

We have a lot of non-paying members that will never join up but will continue to post on the forum. We would like a plugin that after six months if they do not join as a member then they are moved to a suspended or banned group.

Options required would be.

* Select usergroup to apply to.
* Time before ban.
* automated tasks to notify the user before their account exprires and an automated task to moved the user the the suspended group.

Does this exist or can someone write it?

[sonicBeagle]

probably not supposed to second this motion, but this is a great idea, and I've got $50 for a quality hack that accomplishes it.

[Protoman]

to avoid a custom hack you could use 2 usergroups, then use the dynamic forumhome announcements hack to have a huge message saying their account will expire every time they look at the index. then use promotions based on membership time to control moving between groups.

ie. promotion 150 days > warning group
promotion 180 days > banned group